Word: repping
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...Currently, dozens of colleges and universities across this country, including the prestigious ones such as Harvard and Yale, blatantly discriminate against students willing to serve their country, and it is so aggravating to this member," said Rep. Gerald H. Solomon (R-N.Y.), who co-sponsored the bill with Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif...
After a grueling all-nighter on the House floor Wednesday, Rep. Dave McIntosh (R-Ind.) returned to his office to find that his 6-month-old terrier, Madison, had chewed to shreds the budget speech he had planned to deliver today. He winged...
...investigators came up empty after trudging through Vietnamese rice fields Sunday to check allegations by former North Carolina Rep. Billy Hendon that American prisoners of war were still imprisoned in a particular region. They found neither traces of POWs nor the mountain Hendon's contacts had described as the location of the prison where the Americans were being held...
...spouses of servicemen will no longer be able to have abortions at overseas military hospitals, thanks to legislation passed in the House today. The bill amounts to an opening salvo in theGOP drive to eliminate government funding for abortionsand narrow access to the procedure. GOP Presidential hopeful Rep. Robert Dornan, (R-Calif.) led the charge as Republicans narrowly staved off a Democratic move to drop the ban from a 1996 defense spending bill. Ten abortions had been performed at the foreign bases since President Clinton's 1993 executive order ended...
While the Clinton Administration, the House and the Senate have proposed toslash farm subsidiesby as much as $9 billion over the next five years, a bipartisan House coalition is presenting an even more radical idea: eliminate the agricultural payments entirely. Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is co-sponsor of a bill that he says will "wean American agriculture from subsidies and move it into the free market." The bill would save $27.5 billion in federal spending during the five-year phase-out period. Although some have charged that an elimination of subsidies could lead to higher prices for consumers...